Author Archives: Summer Cartwright

Diedra Orosa, of North Canton, Ohio, cannot help her 16-year-old son learn to drive because she, herself, is no longer able to do the task. The mother of three and long-time nurse was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis earlier this year, which has impaired her vision ...

Ohio State is working to match, in some cases, need-based aid given to incoming Ohio students who will be impacted by recent increases in cost of attendance. The increases — 6 percent to the instructional fee, 6 percent to the housing fee and 3 percent to ...

The Tuttle Ave. garage is now open after an incident led to its closure, along with a closure of various campus streets. Ohio State Emergency Management tweeted the closure between Lane Ave. and Woody Hayes Ave., along with a Neil Ave. closure between Lane Ave. ...

Ohio State has agreed to pay $6,000 in settlement after a professor emeritus sued the university for withholding records on the $1.1 billion energy privatization deal introduced in the spring. Bruce Weide, professor emeritus of the Department of Computer and Science Engineering, filed a lawsuit ...

Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty will deliver the Summer Commencement address to 1,500 graduates on Aug.6 at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Beatty was the first female Democratic House leader in Ohio’s history and worked to expand STEM education in the state, as well as secure funds ...

Years before Ohio was ravaged by the opioid epidemic, Ohio State University President Michael Drake bonded with a heroin addict during his medical residency. The patient would later relapse and die soon after. “It struck me that the power of the addiction, the compulsion of ...

Two campus libraries were evacuated Saturday night due to a bomb threat that was called into the Ohio State Police Division dispatch number, said an OSU spokesman. Ohio State Emergency Management tweeted Thompson Library and 18th Avenue Library had been evacuated and K-9 units were ...

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, a celebration each year that honors a series of riots and protests standing up to unfair treatment of the LGBTQ community in 1969 known as the Stonewall riots — a days-long incidence of street protests in ...

Ohio State renewed its contract with Columbus-based fast-food chain Wendy’s, despite years of student protest alongside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a worker-based human rights organization that aims to improve working conditions for farm workers. The renewed lease will keep Wendy’s at its Wexner Medical ...

As the FBI conclude their investigation into the attack on Ohio State’s campus on Nov. 28, they released a note written by attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan that gives new insight into the motives behind his violence. In the note, first obtained by the Associated ...